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Old Nov 2, 2011 | 11:37 am
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Originally Posted by rubesl
They should have gotten some pickup trucks underneath the plane as it was landing, like in the TV commercial for, I think, Dodge Ram trucks.
It was a Nissan ad.

Anyone who knows the landing speed of most larger jets would call mythbuster knowing that there is a big gap between the landing/wheels down speed and the maximum spped of many pickup trucks.
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